Every piece of information that we goes in and out of a school district has to be stored someplace, says Janover. We dont want it on desktop computers; we really need enterprise-class storage.
At least one analyst agrees that enterprise and SMB storage are becoming increasingly difficult to separate.
Theres obviously an enormous commercial opportunity for vendors with SMBs theres a huge number of SMBs out there, both in the U.S. and overseas, says Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT research.
The analyst adds that the days when enterprises and SMBs pursued very different storage strategies are over.
"SMBs today are storing volumes of data that would have been enterprise level just half a decade ago the only companies that are reducing their use of storage are the ones in Chapter 11, he says. That trend creates a great opportunity for companies like EMC to take their products and re-cast them for smaller businesses.
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